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Ramesh #NotGoingBack#Kissinger's contributions to #MiddleEast
—Determined to prevent #Arab victory => #Soviet victory in 1973 #ArabIsraeliWar
—Negotiated #ceaseFire
—Stabilized #Israel, #Egypt, #Syria borders
—Induced Arabs to accept partial withdrawal
—2 disengagement agreements between Egypt & Israel
—1 between Israel & Syria
—Paved the way for #AbrahamAccords
Nixing Egypt weakened other Arab states & sidelined #Palestinians
Key mistake: not seeing Palestinians as part of the equation
With 'shuttle diplomacy,' step by step, Kissinger chased the possible in the Mideast
Henry Kissinger's legacy in the Mideast is the pursuit of what's possible, not necessarily peace, in one of the world's most intractable conflicts. The former U.S. secretary of state, who died this week at age 100, did just that after Egypt and Syria pulled off a surprise invasion of Israel 50 years ago. Using “shuttle diplomacy” to haggle in-person with the leaders of the states in conflict, he negotiated different borders and a process to protect them. His biographer, former United States ambassador Martin Indyk, says in a Washington Post column that Kissinger would advise Israel's Arab neighbors to maintain order in the Gaza Strip and give the Palestinians the “attributes of statehood” — with a two-state solution possible, someday.
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